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The JHE November Newsletter is out Today — Catch up with what you might have missed.

The JHE monthly Newsletter for November is out today. Catch up with what you might have missed. News, views, and insights from the UK, Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Italy, Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and more. Plus three photo essays, and … continue reading →

Bows (and some arrows) to mark the Hebrew month of Kislev, whose Zodiac sign is Keshet — the bow — or Sagittarius

We’re in the Hebrew month of Kislev, whose Zodiac sign is Sagittarius — Keshet; or bow. Here are some images of the Bow (and arrow) marking Kislev, depicted in Zodiacs found in various European synagogues (and a library).   ShareTweetSharePin

Poland: Celebrating the 120th birthday of the grand ceremonial hall at the New Jewish Cemetery in Gliwice, now the Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance

The Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance in Gliwice, Poland held a celebration this week to mark the 120th anniversary of the building in which it is housed — the pre-burial hall of the city’s New Jewish Cemetery.  The festive … continue reading →

Kristallnacht anniversary 2023: countering destruction with images of wonderful surviving — and restored — synagogues

The  night of November 9-10 marks the 85th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — Reichspogromnacht — in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied … continue reading →

Poland: the Memorial Pillar in the Bagnowka Jewish cemetery in Białystok has been re-erected after a painstaking restoration. It commemorates scores of victims of a pogrom and massacres in 1905 and 1906

Since June, work has been under way to restore the Memorial Pillar in the Bagnowka Jewish cemetery in Białystok, which commemorates the scores of victims of bloody anti-Jewish violence in the town: the 1906 pogrom and two massacres in 1905. … continue reading →